posted at 7:55 pm on November 1, 2010 by Allahpundit

Via Greg Hengler, is this ship going down so fast that not even Tingles will stand on the deck with the captain as it disappears below the waves? Good lord. Someone, please, tell Obama that he’s still the unicorn prince of their dreams, capable of turning water into wine and worthless mortgages into pure spun gold. Here we go — thank you, Curtis Sittenfeld!

I know the clip sounds promising from the headline, but alas, my friends, this is really just ye olde “messaging” lament by another name. Apparently, the reason the public’s not sold on ObamaCare and the stimulus is because, notwithstanding his thousand speeches on both topics and ludicrous arguments about bending the cost curve, The One simply hasn’t explained Keynesian economics accessibly enough yet. In fact, this is the “messaging” lament on steroids: Look out for the line where Matthews acknowledges that even if gigantic spending isn’t a catalyst for economic growth, “he ought to sell it that way, at least.”

Give him credit, though, at least for recognizing that The One should be doing less talking and more listening. Granted, the people he’d say we should be listening to are those who think the big problem with O-Care is that it lacks a public option, but he’s at least in the neighborhood of the problem here. For further reading in the “messaging” vein — and you’ll be hearing a lot of this on Wednesday, no doubt — see Tina Brown’s meditation today on how Obama can change course. Hint: More robust White House arts-and-concerts initiatives in the grand style of Jackie Kennedy. That’ll quiet these wingnuts down a bit.

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Speaking of MSNBC, looks like Keiff Olbermann want “respect” and is planning to show why he did not warrant mentioning at the Stewart rally. Oh, and I think he’s killing “Worst Person in the Wooooooooooooooorld” he just hinted.

The One simply hasn’t explained Keynesian economics accessibly enough yet. In fact, this is the “messaging” lament on steroids: Look out for the line where Matthews acknowledges that even if gigantic spending isn’t a catalyst for economic growth, “he ought to sell it that way, at least.”

What scares these creatures more than anything is the simple fact that the citizens are going to demand investigations and prosecutions. Does anybody here know where-how the TARP money was spent? Does anybody here know how any of the 1.5 trillion was spent? Back room deals where Republicans were literally locked out. Private meetings held (think group) with media members, breaking every law ever created for journalists. The list is so long it will likely take decades to work through.

Tickles on healthcare… “he never sold it… a catlayst to greater growth down the road. Maybe it isn’t, but he outta sell it that way, at least…”.
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What a maroon…
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And if I never see that last part again… it will be just fine by me.

For once Chrissy’s right. Obummer is not my president. In fact, he deplores people like me: God-fearing, productive, law-abiding Americans who happens to vote Republican.

Jimmy Carter would’ve disagreed with me, but not hated me, and not called me an “enemy”.

Bill Clinton would have laughed at me, but not hated me. Not called me an “enemy”.

To Obama, however, I’m the enemy. And that’s why he deserves every bit of smackdown that comes his way, starting tomorrow night. I hope he limps through the rest of his term, politically hobbled. I hope he goes down as the nation’s worst president. I hope schoolchildren doodle on his textbook picture a century from now.

I actually listened… Did Matthews really admit Obama should have been lying MORE about the healthcare bill?

And it is a darn good thing we didn’t all go to graduate school!

If they teach that kind of crap in any law school in the country we should ban that law school! I am not aware of any economics class in a law school curriculum. So if “We all, including Obama, learned it in “grad school” (Matthews is being elitist here) he should tell us more about this fabled education!

Matthews is an idiot. Does he have a graduate degree? In economics? That was an incredibly stupid rant.

What scares these creatures more than anything is the simple fact that the citizens are going to demand investigations and prosecutions. Does anybody here know where-how the TARP money was spent? Does anybody here know how any of the 1.5 trillion was spent? Back room deals where Republicans were literally locked out. Private meetings held (think group) with media members, breaking every law ever created for journalists. The list is so long it will likely take decades to work through.

Keemo on November 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM

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And I’ve been saying that since before TARP passed (that the $ would just disappear into a hole). Said it to some libs a few times and they just fumbled for… ‘well, we gotta do something’ and the like. Un-freakin believable.
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Damn straight I want investigations and jail time handed out to the thieves.

Nov. 2 is when the U.S.A. caps this spewing well of liberalism (A.K.A. Operation Top Kill). After that comes the long job of performing Operation Bottom Kill. Only then will we be able to audit the damage and execute the clean-up phase.

Let me get this straight…we didn’t go to graduate school, like Obama went to graduate school, so we need him to do a better job of explaining why he spent trillions of dollars and our great-grand-children’s future to accomplish jack squat?

Chris Matthews is the kind of dumbass that gives dumbasses a bad name.

Is there someone on the right, maybe here or NB, that has accepted the responsibility of putting together a ‘best of the anguish’ video? I can’t watch Judy Woodruff’s breakdown, Tingle’s crying, Andy Vanderbilt’s hissy fit, etc, all at the same time.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism.

Look out for the line where Matthews acknowledges that even if gigantic spending isn’t a catalyst for economic growth, “he ought to sell it that way, at least.”

That is what struck me. Only, I thought he was talking about Obamacare . . . that it should be sold that it was good for economic growth even if it isn’t. Excuse me . . . so you want him to lie about the economic benefits of something just to “sell” it?? You have got to be kidding me.

You know if Obama would have been seen behind the oval desk 1/100th of the time he was seen behind the telepromter he wouldn’t be having so much trouble.

The problem with Obama is no one has ever seen him do the freaking job he was elected todo. Sure we seen him give speeches, we seen him golf, we seen him on every TV station in the known universe, we have even seen him on vaction to all the hot spots of the rich anf famous but you know I have never ever seen him working. I have never seen him have a meeting with his cabinet, I have never seen photos of him meeting with his advisors, I have never seen him behind the desk in the oval office.

Look out for the line where Matthews acknowledges that even if gigantic spending isn’t a catalyst for economic growth, “he ought to sell it that way, at least.”

That is what struck me. Only, I thought he was talking about Obamacare . . . that it should be sold that it was good for economic growth even if it isn’t. Excuse me . . . so you want him to lie about the economic benefits of something just to “sell” it?? You have got to be kidding me.

Voter from WA State on November 1, 2010 at 8:50 PM

It starts at about 1:25 of the video. Matthews’ next step will be lie on behalf of Obama, not by omission-by direct statements. Hey, let’s see if NPR or any people who consider themselves journalists call Matthews out on his directing Obama to lie. Let’s see if Jay Leno, Dave Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart or Steve Colbert mock this.

What I see is a community organizer who took the elitists in the media and the Democratic Party for a ride. He is focused on robbing the middle class and the rich to give more to the poor, largely blacks and Latinos and unions, who were and are his main clientele. The fact that so many of our elites claim to care about these classes blinded them to the dangerous excesses of which he was capable. Now that his agenda has shocked the economy into a stand still, he’s reverted to his Organizer persona, instead of the kumbayah, hope and change pied piper that he ran as.

My point was that its the little things, the things unseen but noticed for its omission. I always looked to the POTUS has the stable person. I wasn’t happy with Bush when he went on vaction so much to his ranch before 9/11 but after 9/11 Bush was not seen out of the WH much. Maybe its just the media playing up all the Obama events but by doing so the media is DOWNPLAYING the yoman work photos, the downtiem in the office that citizens need to see to know that the POTUs is working to protect them, to help them to govern…..etc.

That the f-ing problem with “Grad school.” They’re teaching you need to spend your way out of a recession. Love how Chrissie thinks we’re just too simple to grasp what the smart “grad school” guys know.

I’d like to remind you leftists that your shyte has NEVER worked in any part of the world in any time period.

Such a case in point is the groundswell of freedom minded individuals that are forming in places like RUSSIA!

All the other states of European Continent have or are throwing off the yoke of socialism that they have had imposed upon them for generations.

Does that give you a clue?

In fact, for the last ten years or more, as these peoples exercise Their God given rights, many of your ilk have had to develop a new base from which to operate.

Your shyte wouldn’t work over there anymore. And since
you’ve always had designs for N. and S. America, we ended up with you.
Crapola. At least you brought rissoto and falafal. And gyros.

What is the shame in this “social engineering” that you were perpretrating (often on threat or actual violence) is that as you exited where you weren’t wanted, it left a huge vacuum that was thoroughly filled by Muslims for the most part (and the premeditated population jihad bomb that has thus far been successful as it has gone under reported).

Now, you’re on MY soil with the same old donkey shyte and expect the patriots to roll over for you? Are you delusional?

Don’t answer no.

When I witness you elitists pursue your agenda in opposition to the American ideals that I’ve lived, you can get very angry that I and many of my fellow Patriots see through your intrusions into our liberties and take you to task over it. Whaaa! You cry, “Racist, Homophobe, Islamaphobe Capitalist”. So eat me.

When that doesn’t work you malign, then try to marginalize us, followed by attempts at ingratiating yourselves and finally claiming you felt the same way all along!!! Tools!

(We of the great “unwashed” know shyte when we smell it. You stink.)

This has not, and will not work. Not here. Nor in any part of the world where right thinking people desire true freedom.

The shameful acts that you “engineered” in the EU are also backfiring and the people’s of that continent are rising up
against Sharia/Jihad/Fatwa Mo-ness just as they did against the hogwash you played in.

It’s the same turd in a different wrapper. And don’t get me started on the Green Weenies.

Did you really imagine that my brethren and I would decide to quit playin’ nice with you and finally and repeatedly give you swift knee strikes about your junk???

Get a flippin, frackin, frellin clue. It’s you or us. We win.

You Are Insane. The Stewart/Colbert/ComediCorp tm LameFest this past weekend proves the point.

Thank God Tingles clued us into what was going down with Obama the night before the election. I guess he had to make extra special really, really sure before he let us know, because he is a media icon and shit.